Reason Quotes

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.